low-end persistence strategies?

[John Lenton]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:02:37PM -0800, Michele Simionato wrote:
> > John Lenton:
> Also, if you use something where the process doesn't terminate between
> calls (such as mod_python, I guess), you have to be sure to write the
> try/finallys around your locking code, because the OS only cleans up
> the lock when the process exits.
> 
> This is what I feared. What happens in the case of a power failure?
> Am I left with locked files floating around?

no.

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